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     § x801. ELISHA F. WATSON, 8 (Phebe, 7; Job, 6; Sarah Hazard, 5; Robert, 
     
     4; Thomas, 3; Robert, 9.; Thomas, I), was born March 28, I 8 14, at Boston Neck, 
     
     in the house owned and built by his ancestor, Robert (4) Hazard. His early 
     
     education was received from William H. Ghanor, a teacher of repute in the early 
     
     part of the century. In I 8 37, he entered Brown University, Providence, and grad- 
     
     uated from that institution in I 840. He then began the study of theology at the 
     
     General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, concluding 
     
     the course under Reverend Doctor Francis Vinton, of Newport. He was ordained 
     
     to the ministry in August, 1843, and for the succeeding three years was reétor of 
     
     S. Paul’s Church, Tower Hill, and S. Matthew’s Church in Jamestown. Mr. Wat— 
     
     son was then called tO Christ Church, Lonsdale, in the same State, and for more 
     
     than three years had charge of the parish. 
     
    

    
     In 1851 he returned to South Kingstown, and lived on the farm inherited by his 
     
     Wife from her father. In 1861, on the outbreak of the Civil War, he joined the 
     
     Army of the‘Potomac, as Chaplain of the Eleventh Massachusetts Volunteers, 
     
     serving in that capacity for more than three years, with an absence of but two 
     
     weeks during the entire period. He later acted as volunteer chaplain of the 
     
     Seventh Rhode Island Volunteers, returning to his home in the autumn of I 864. 
     
     Mr. Watson’s reading of Clarkson’s Abolition of the British Slave Trade strongly 
     
     impressed upon his mind the evils of the slave system, and made him an abo- 
     
     litionist. Hence his labors during the late war were not more directed to the 
     
     preservation of the Union than the abolition of slavery.1 
     
    

    
     He married, June 6, I 843, Mary, daughter of John and Mercy (Peckham) Dock— 
     
     ray, of Wakefield. She was born Oétober 23, 1819. They were married by the 
     
     Reverend James Eames. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     2472. ARTHUR H. WATSON; married Annie P. Spragtze. 
     
    
   
   
    
     § 1802. FREEMAN PERRY WATSON, 8 (Phebe, 7; Job, 6; Sarah Hazard, 
     
     5; Robert, 4; Thomas, 3; Robert, 2 ; Thomas, 1). He married, first, January 24, 
     
     1848, Mary Congdon, daughter of Daniel Watson, and Mary, his wife, of James- 
     
     town. He married, second, Abby, daughter of Benjamin Hull, of Tower Hill. 
     
     CHILDREN OF FIRST MARRIAGE 
     
    
   
   
    
     2473. LINCOLN P. WATSON. 
     
     2474. MARY CONGDON WATSON. 
     
    
   
   
    
     § 1824. HERBERT HAZARD, 8 (Jonathan,7; Jonathan, 6 ; Stephen, 5; Ste— 
     
     phen,4;' Stephen, 3 ; Robert, 2; Thomas, I), was born in 1848 ; he married, first, 
     
     Jennie Hunter; he married, second, F annic Ross. 
     
    

    
     CHILDREN or SECOND MARRIAGE 
     
    
   
   
    
     2475. FANNIE Ross HAZARD. 
     
     2476. JOHN Ross HAZARD. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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